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  1  Pref,   2|      For I have proved, by long experience, how much I gain by leaving
  2  Outl,   0|         see certain visions and experience revelations" (R IV).~c.
  3  Outl,   0|      after almost twenty years' experience of prayer": L XXIII).~(1557.
  4  Intr,   0|         Lord of that Castle and experience a foretaste of the Beatific
  5  Intr,   0|      had a lifetime of academic experience, Fray Luis de Le-n acquitted
  6  Unic,   4|       to me. For I know now, by experience of many kinds, that if I
  7  Unic,   4|    enjoyed them. This I know by experience, as I have said, in many
  8  Unic,   4|    blessing. It is true that my experience of Union lasted only a short
  9  Unic,   5|     liked. I have discovered by experience that if they are virtuous
 10  Unic,   6|       of this glorious saint my experience is that he succours us in
 11  Unic,   6|          This has also been the experience of other persons whom I
 12  Unic,   6|         saint, for I have great experience of the blessings which he
 13  Unic,   6|        test, and he will see by experience what great advantages come
 14  Unic,   6|         years, in many ways, by experience -- to do nothing contrary
 15  Unic,   7|        that I longed for him to experience the benefit which I seemed
 16  Unic,   7|        have received already, I experience a kind of torture which
 17  Unic,   7|         not had a great deal of experience of its importance. It is
 18  Unic,   7|  himself but in someone who has experience, will lose nothing. As regards
 19  Unic,   8|        I can say what I know by experience -- namely, that no one who
 20  Unic,  10|   sometimes, as I have said, to experience in an elementary form, and
 21  Unic,  10|          I used unexpectedly to experience a consciousness of the presence
 22  Unic,  10|        to whom it refers, whose experience it recounts or who is its
 23  Unic,  10|    obscure to anyone who has no experience of it. I shall describe
 24  Unic,  10|       the Lord has taught me by experience. More recently I have discussed
 25  Unic,  11|         He wishes us to know by experience how miserable we are, lest
 26  Unic,  11|     that person of so few days' experience, and none to me after so
 27  Unic,  11|       this because I know it by experience -- that the soul which begins
 28  Unic,  11|          I have a great deal of experience of this and I know that
 29  Unic,  11|        is important to have had experience, for from this we learn
 30  Unic,  12|     lift up his spirit so as to experience consolations which are not
 31  Unic,  12|          anyone who has had any experience will understand me and if
 32  Unic,  12|      read this by granting them experience of it, and, however slight
 33  Unic,  12|        and, however slight that experience may be, they will at once
 34  Unic,  12|   profit and gain from the very experience through which the devil
 35  Unic,  13|        for I have learned it by experience; this mere narration of
 36  Unic,  13|         thing and knowing it by experience. Returning, then, to what
 37  Unic,  13|         but he must be a man of experience, or he will make a great
 38  Unic,  13|     though some of them have no experience, they are not averse from
 39  Unic,  13|    without proof and I have had experience of quite a number.118 Anyone,
 40  Unic,  14|        the Lord grants the soul experience of more special consolations.
 41  Unic,  14| contentment and others which we experience on earth, for He seems to
 42  Unic,  14|         not had a great deal of experience it will not realize this,
 43  Unic,  14|       realize this, and so much experience is necessary that, in order
 44  Unic,  15|        I am judging from my own experience.~
 45  Unic,  15|     acquired, as anyone who has experience of it must perforce realize
 46  Unic,  15|    nothing good is a well-known experience, and the greater are the
 47  Unic,  15|  ourselves wholly to Him and we experience a security combined with
 48  Unic,  16|          But what will the soul experience when it regains its senses
 49  Unic,  16|      the Lord desires a soul to experience while in this exile. Blessed
 50  Unic,  18|          Anyone who has not had experience of the latter will think
 51  Unic,  18|         not myself had abundant experience. The fact is, when I began
 52  Unic,  18|       thing has taken place: we experience a loss of strength but the
 53  Unic,  18|        loss of strength but the experience is one of such delight that
 54  Unic,  19|       if I had not had personal experience of it, I could not believe
 55  Unic,  19|        yet strong and it has no experience which will warn it of dangers,
 56  Unic,  20|        than any other spiritual experience and I felt as if I were
 57  Unic,  20|      very body and it will thus experience a new estrangement from
 58  Unic,  20|       frequently and habitually experience at present. Sometimes it
 59  Unic,  20|        impulses which I used to experience when the Lord was pleased
 60  Unic,  20|        has an entirely physical experience with an entirely spiritual
 61  Unic,  20|      may have been granted that experience by the Lord in a higher
 62  Unic,  20|      Lord has already given you experience of it, though, as this happened
 63  Unic,  20|      have observed it in my own experience, that the soul, while enraptured,
 64  Unic,  20|         this without having had experience of it; and so nobody believes
 65  Unic,  21|        discerned by anyone with experience.~
 66  Unic,  21|      perfection. For, except by experience, no one will ever believe
 67  Unic,  22|         Majesty taught it me by experience what I learned was nothing
 68  Unic,  22|       When I began to gain some experience of supernatural prayer --
 69  Unic,  22|         have observed in my own experience, for my soul was in a very
 70  Unic,  22|    times have I learned this by experience: the Lord has told it me.
 71  Unic,  22|       find someone who has more experience and more knowledge of the
 72  Unic,  22|       who eat very little of it experience the pleasant taste only
 73  Unic,  22|        lose, as I have said. So experience and discretion are necessary
 74  Unic,  23|      after almost twenty years' experience of prayer I had gained nothing,
 75  Unic,  23|     this is a grievous trial to experience and one needs to be careful --
 76  Unic,  23|       Fathers were men of great experience in spiritual matters. I
 77  Unic,  24|        there is much potency in experience. He said that it would be
 78  Unic,  24|       by the strangeness of the experience had vanished.~
 79  Unic,  25|       has become quite a common experience even to this day, as will
 80  Unic,  25|      our true Lord. I have long experience of this; I was so much afraid
 81  Unic,  25|       think anyone who has much experience will seldom, if ever, be
 82  Unic,  25|  deceived. But, as considerable experience is necessary before this
 83  Unic,  25|         imagining it (after the experience was over, I mean, for at
 84  Unic,  25|    position; and anyone who has experience of it will know that all
 85  Unic,  25|  understanding until I had this experience myself, and so, as I have
 86  Unic,  25|        caution, for persons who experience visions or revelations and
 87  Unic,  25|       as I can see and learn by experience, the soul must be convinced
 88  Unic,  25|        Anyone, I think, who has experience of the good spirit will
 89  Unic,  25|        Lord, for I have already experience of the benefits which come
 90  Unic,  26|         that anyone who has had experience of it will understand it
 91  Unic,  27| frequent -- I had the following experience. I was at prayer on a festival
 92  Unic,  27|   previously been accustomed to experience; and that the thing was
 93  Unic,  27|        the Godhead; but in this experience, besides receiving these,
 94  Unic,  27|        Lord teaches it to us by experience. The Lord introduces into
 95  Unic,  27|       who put it there. In this experience, I do know Who put it there,
 96  Unic,  27|         are saying. But in this experience the soul does nothing, for
 97  Unic,  27|       far will it go? I know by experience that all I am saying now
 98  Unic,  28|      fearful, as does every new experience that I have when the Lord
 99  Unic,  28|     have conclusively proved by experience, as I shall relate. ~
100  Unic,  28|       what I have discovered by experience. How the Lord effects it,
101  Unic,  28|      view, where a soul has had experience, the devil will be unable
102  Unic,  28|        a vision involving a new experience, God allowed me to be left
103  Unic,  28|       it is to have no one with experience of this spiritual road;
104  Unic,  29|  goodness, to give him the same experience.232~
105  Unic,  29|        it immediately begins to experience fruition. May He be blessed
106  Unic,  30|         but it bewildered me to experience such excessive spiritual
107  Unic,  30|         he was a man with great experience of prayer, his writings
108  Unic,  30|        saw that, out of his own experience, he understood me. And that
109  Unic,  30|         was unable, however, to experience this feeling of complete
110  Unic,  30|     despair. I have had so much experience by now of the devil's work
111  Unic,  30|       instinct which comes from experience where he is likely to stumble,
112  Unic,  30|        its own way." This is an experience I often have, but sometimes
113  Unic,  30|      live or die, nor whether I experience pleasure or pain: I seem
114  Unic,  30|        if it has not learned by experience what it is to be able to
115  Unic,  31|                       From long experience I have learned that there
116  Unic,  31|       As I have a great deal of experience here, I will say something
117  Unic,  32|      very deep distress which I experience because of the great number
118  Unic,  33|         was now that I began to experience the increasingly strong
119  Unic,  33|     well by the ample spiritual experience which he had acquired of
120  Unic,  34|         has had a great deal of experience in a short time, these being
121  Unic,  34|    possibly be attained without experience, and thus, as I have said,
122  Unic,  34|          that if he has neither experience nor the deepest humility
123  Unic,  34|     scholar, and when he has no experience of a thing he consults those
124  Unic,  35|         the advantage of a long experience, none was better able to
125  Unic,  36|          we should each find by experience how little either of happiness
126  Unic,  36|        best, and I have seen by experience that, if we are to preserve
127  Unic,  37|         I have said I sometimes experience. The soul collects wood
128  Unic,  37|         activities and learn by experience how little it can do of
129  Unic,  38|         pleased that she should experience. Speaks of the effects which
130  Unic,  38|        prison and at rest. This experience, in which God bears away
131  Unic,  38|         I think, too, that this experience has been of great help to
132  Unic,  38|          We might have the same experience as a certain peasant --
133  Unic,  39|   properly understood except by experience, let us humble ourselves
134  Unic,  39|       should then see that this experience of mine was not of the devil.
135  Unic,  40|       to great harm. And I have experience of this and of the wisdom
136  Unic,  40|             In all this we need experience and a director; for, when
137  Unic,  40|       are few who have acquired experience of all these things, and
138  Unic,  40|       these things, and without experience it is useless to attempt
139  Unic,  40|  greatness. It was a terrifying experience for me, in so short a space
140  Unic,  40|     made me wonder, if one such experience as this leaves the soul
141  Unic,  40|     great pain and beginning to experience my usual sickness. Seeing
142  Unic,  40|       is frequently the case, I experience a kind of lukewarmness and